Residents want to revive Harry Street Park
Proposed activities include fun runs, exercise regimes, outdoor movies and soirees in the evenings, light shows, picnics, art exhibitions, environmental and historical talks of the South.
Earlier this year a retired city employee, Glyn Bickerton, thought that his local park wasn’t used enough and he decided to do something about it.
So he put an invitation onto the Robertsham’s WhatsApp crime group for the community to join him on a walk in the park to discuss this issue.
A group of residents joined him for the first community walk on a Saturday and the Harry Street Park Project (HSPP) was born.
A sub-committee of the neighbourhood watch was set up to give the project an organisational and legal framework within which to operate.
The committee decided to use the park as a focal point for the community to get to know one another by creating a safe, secure, well-equipped green space with community sanctioned activities to promote the “re-creation” of its users.
The HSPP will be steered by a liaison committee that is non-partisan, apolitical, non-racist and areligious. They invite all community members, businesses and interested parties in and around Robertsham to contact them further information.
Proposed activities include fun runs, exercise regimes, outdoor movies and soirees in the evenings, light shows, picnics, art exhibitions, environmental and historical talks of the South and whatever other activities the community decides on.
The HSPP needs a logo. There is a design-a-logo competition for it. Submit your entries on the Harry Street Park Project Facebook page. SA Rangers, one of the founding business partners of HSPP have put up a R1 000 prize for the winning entry.
Competition closes on October 20.
For more information contact interim chairman Colin Lee on 062 662 4862.
